00                            SENATE BILL NO. 64                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to the pay of members of the Alaska National Guard and Alaska Naval                                    
02 Militia while in active service primarily as a labor force."                                                            
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 26.05.260(b) is amended to read:                                                                  
05            (b)  Members of the Alaska National Guard and Alaska Naval Militia are                                       
06       entitled to receive, for each day of active service under AS 26.05.070,                                           
07                 (1)  except for active service as described in (2) of this subsection,                              
08       pay equal to 200 percent of the minimum daily basic pay provided by federal laws and                              
09       regulations for members of equivalent grades of the United States armed forces;                               
10       however [. HOWEVER], a member may not receive less than $105 a [PER] day for                              
11       active service performed during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, and for [. FOR]                         
12       fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2000, the minimum payment of $105 shall be                                  
13       increased one percent for each percent increase in the consumer price index for                                   
14       Anchorage, Alaska, as determined by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau                                 

01       of Labor Statistics, not to exceed an annual increase of four percent; the [. THE]                            
02       increase authorized by this paragraph, if any, takes effect not more than 30 days                             
03       after the release of the consumer price index; for that purpose, the [. THE] consumer                         
04       price index that is published immediately after July 1, 1999, is the reference base                               
05       index;                                                                                                        
06                 (2)  during which the members perform in active service primarily                                   
07       as a labor force, pay equal to that received by the main labor force in service of                            
08       the state or federal government performing services as a labor force; the adjutant                            
09       general shall, by regulations adopted under AS 44.62, define "active service                                  
10       primarily as a labor force" for purposes of this paragraph; the regulations may                               
11       include within the definition, by way of example and not limitation, service by the                           
12       members to fight fires, combat a flood, or perform in the relief of another                                   
13       emergency or disaster.                                                                                        
14    * Sec. 2.   AS 26.05.330(e) is amended to read:                                                                    
15            (e)  For each day of duty as a member of a general court-martial, or as a                                    
16       witness under summons from the president or judge advocate of the court, officers and                             
17       enlisted persons shall be paid as provided in AS 26.05.260(b)(1) [AS 26.05.260(b)                             
18       AND (c)].